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Book SynopsisSHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018
NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017
''Brilliant ... a staggering story'' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year
''Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memoir'' Guardian
Uncovering his family''s remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family that fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His British father was the lucky one, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants who settled in London after escaping the civil war and revolution. Max, the grandfather, had started out as a socialist and manned the barricades against tsarist troops, but never spoke of it. His wife, Frouma, came from a family ravaged by the Great Terror yet somehow making their way in Soviet society.
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Brilliant ... a staggering story
-- Robert Fox * Evening Standard, Book of the Year *
Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memoir * Guardian *
